John Ensign: “I want to thank Senator Reid for his work on this important legislation that will launch a new chapter in higher…”

We have to make such difficult--these are going to be painful--politically painful choices to make.

I am going to reluctantly support H.R. 1. It reduces government spending by about $61 billion below last year's levels. The reason I am reluctantly supporting it is because I don't think it goes far enough. We have heard the other side…

The debt that you are talking about, the interest on the debt, you have said that is unsustainable.

to wrap up this debate, let me address, first of all, the whole idea that changing this treaty in any way kills the treaty. Under the Constitution, certainly it is the President's role, the administration's role, to negotiate the treaties…